diff --git a/virttest/qemu_installer.py b/virttest/qemu_installer.py
index 61a5d0ae16..1a566a13d6 100644
--- a/virttest/qemu_installer.py
+++ b/virttest/qemu_installer.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ class QEMUBaseInstaller(base_installer.BaseInstaller):
     # to the test directory
     #
     qemu_system = 'qemu-system-' + decode_to_text(process.system_output('uname -i'))
-    ACCEPTABLE_QEMU_BIN_NAMES = ['qemu-kvm', qemu_system]
+    ACCEPTABLE_QEMU_BIN_NAMES = ['qemu-kvm', 'qemu-system-ppc64', qemu_system]
 
     #
     # The default names for the binaries